Joey O'Connor, a top recruit in 2012, decommitted from Penn State last November. He'll sign with Ohio State on Wednesday.

Ohio State recruit Joey O’Connor decommitted on a Thursday from Penn State last November. It wasn’t entirely by design — he’d hope to wait until Sunday, after Windsor’s conference championship game at Frederick.

But, with a TV crew waiting out front of his house, O’Connor’s plans changed. So he decommitted that night.

It had already been a heck of a week.

News of the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State broke that Saturday, then mushroomed on Sunday.

“We were like, ‘We’ll just take this week to week and then we’ll figure it out,’ ” O’Connor said. “Then it turned into a day-to-day thing, and then it turned into a minute-to-minute thing.”

On Monday, O’Connor and his teammates started preparation for Frederick, a team that had beaten them a year earlier, 15-7, thanks in most part to Windsor’s six turnovers. This season’s game was the regular season finale, and a win would secure a good seed in the Class 3A playoffs.

Chaparral offensive lineman Shane Callahan graduated last week — a semester early — and is set to make the cross-country drive to Auburn.

The 6-foot-6, 280-pound tackle — who is rated as the 25th-best recruit nationally at his position by rivals.com, and one of the top 2012 recruits from Colorado — says he can’t wait to get to campus. He’ll arrive Jan. 5, and begin working out soon thereafter.

The early arrival should help Callahan’s development, both physically and in terms of adjusting to the college game. He’ll have a huge edge over freshmen who enroll in the summer and fall.

Right around the time he graduated last week, Callahan got a visit from Auburn offensive line coach Jeff Grimes.

… multiple sources with knowledge of the situation relayed that a hazing incident Parker failed to report was at the center of the matter.

That investigation resulted in a two-game suspension, according to Re-2 spokeswoman Theresa Hamilton. Parker, in his fourth season as coach, missed Coal Ridge’s 14-6 loss to Delta last week. He’ll also be out for this week’s game against Roaring Fork.

Neil Devlin, originally from the Philadelphia area, has covered high school sports in Colorado for more than 30 years, writing about the people, athletes and events that encompass the Rocky Mountain prep sports world.